[…]eft home at twenty and a friend of ours offered me a home there - I managed to get a job in the short-hand typing.Sidney Cole : At Welwyn Garden City studios?Muriel Box : Yes.Sidney Cole : When would that be round about? In the late '20s?Muriel Box : No in the early '20s, about '22 or '3. That's whe[…]
[…];20:44   Yes Particularly? One, you know, I moved over to the new laboratory, the Elstree, which, of course, as you know, was alongside the studios there. And so we had the constant pressure from the boys shooting the film to get it out as quickly as possible. And indeed, they did have a d[…]
[…];20:44   Yes Particularly? One, you know, I moved over to the new laboratory, the Elstree, which, of course, as you know, was alongside the studios there. And so we had the constant pressure from the boys shooting the film to get it out as quickly as possible. And indeed, they did have a d[…]
[…]tical side of film making.NA: presumably it gave you a discipline as well about sort of schedules and..CL: and also you saw people come from the film studios to the labs. Particularly one I remember Julius Hagen who ran I think Twickenham studios. He came in a white Rolls Royce and with a blac[…]
[…]of this recording is vested in the BECTU history project. Gerry Humphries, sound recordist, dubbing mixer, managing director of Twickenham Film Studios. Interviewer Alan Lawson. Recorded on the 21st August 1995. Side one.Now, first Gerry when and where were you born?GH 11.5.1[…]
[…]ackground you could change it. This was the theory and the practice. And I had virtually ten years at Pinewood doing this and we went to the smallest studios, for example Pathé in Wardour Street to film a Triumph motor car dashing through the Alps on a children's film. We of course had to squeeze up[…]
[…], which is suddenly the Birmingham mayor, was going to be there and everybody just shaking hands. What happened was people coming into the same music studio, people were talking, to this day, that, amongst the people who are trying to kill each other there are friendships that are more solid than pe[…]
[…] is vested in the BECTU History Project.Interviewer Bob AllenThis is an interview with Peter Handford, sound recordist, and it is taking place in his studio where most of the train records for which he is quite famous have been put together at his home. The date is the 19 November 1988.The ques[…]
[…]e up. And one of the interesting things, again going back to this Company of Youth as distinct from charm school, of course as well as the four major studios: Ealing, Shepherd’s Bush, Pinewood and Denham, there was Highbury, where John Croydon made those excellent little supporting pictures, and it […]
